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Hi Mike,
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 05:08:51PM -0600, Mike Burrows wrote:
> Gooned up a printer driver install and now stuck coz I can't go back and
> start over:
The key message is:
> marvin:/home/testermike# aptitude
> purge /home/testermike/brother/mfc240ccupswrapper-1.0.0-9.i386.deb
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> Building tag database... Done
> You can only specify a package archive with an 'install' command.
^^ this one ^^
You need to specify the package name, not the path to the .deb file.
> No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Setting up mfc240ccupswrapper (1.0.0-9) ...
So try:
$ sudo aptitude purge mfc240ccupswrapper
Cheers,
Andy
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